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Women's Watershed Fiction |
14 September 2004 |
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Help us find the top 10 novels that have changed the way we see women by nominating your choice
Woman's Hour invites you to nominate the novel which has spoken to you on a personal level. It may have听changed the way you look at yourself or simply made you happy to be a woman. As a man, it may have affected your understanding of the women in your life. Your selection can be written by a man or a woman, in this country or abroad, as long as it touched your life in some way.听
Jenni talks to Lisa Jardine, who's chaired prizes including the听Man听Booker Prize and has conducted research for the to come up with an initial听 from a .听They're joined by Jackie Kay, whose novel Trumpet has changed lives, and Radio 4's Open Book presenter and former Man Booker Prize judge, Mariella Frostrup, to discuss what makes a Watershed book.
So start thinking which novel made a difference, gave you hope, kick-started a course of action, or changed your mind.
14 September:
Nominations open
22 October:听听听听听
Nominations close at noon
1 November:听听听听听
The longlist of 30 novels is announced on Woman's Hour and published听here simultaneously.听Voting opens for the shortlist of 10
12听November:听听
Voting for听the shortlist of听10 closes at noon
8 December:听听听听
The top 10 novels are announced with听a special programme from the Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library in front of a studio audience. The list will also be published on this website.
What you have to do
Now all you have to do is听nominate a novel by filling in the email form below. We would like to ask some listeners to talk on air about the book they have nominated and we may contact you at a later date for this purpose. You are under no obligation to take part.听听We may also publish some of your comments on this website. Please read the听Terms and Conditions of Entry carefully.
CSV Woman's Hour have teamed up with听Community Service Volunteers to enable reading groups around the country to come together and discuss and nominate their choices. Find out more...
Books on Woman's Hour
You can find out more about other books items broadcast onWoman's Hour by going to our books archive.
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